ME1 Framerate Weirdly Cratered?
So, back when Legendary Edition first came out, I had no issues playing a full 140 hours across all three games and getting 100% completion. I decided to take a bit of a break, get caught up on other...
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Okay, wow, even a clean boot didn't work.
I'm... gonna try something. Last time I had weirdly selective FPS issues, it was because of Nvidia drivers. I'm gonna acquire and install the drivers I was using when the game came out. If that doesn't do it... I'm honestly, truly stumped.
Nope! Even the game ready drivers for this game that worked on launch day do nothing to fix the problem!
EDIT - I did... just notice that despite disabling Origin Overlay both in the general Origin settings and for Legendary Edition's game-specific settings, it's still active in "R&D Mode". I investigated it and attempted a fix, and while it's no longer active, the framerate is still tanked. NOW I'm stumped for good.
EDIT 2 - As a combination of a last-ditch effort, as well as a culmination of months of micro-frustrations, I decided I'd spend today resetting my OS. Just waiting on LE to reinstall, I'll hit back once I've got results. Hopefully there was just something really, really, REALLY bizarre bottlenecking the game's performance, and starting with a purged slate gets things back in working order.
Eleven hours of waiting for the game to redownload later, on a completely factory reset operating system... no headway. It's still busted. To just keep track of everything I've attempted:
- Disabling in-game overlays- Disabling my replay software
- Turning off all graphics settings, as well as toggling all resolution options
- Unplugging peripherals
- Verifying cache integrity
- Reinstalling the game
- Making sure things are plugged in correctly
- Double-checking my Nvidia control panel to make sure it wasn't trying to run off my motherboard GPU
- Running a clean boot with zero active services aside from Steam and Origin
- Rolling back to the April Game-Ready Nvidia drivers that I ran the game on in the first place
- Factory resetting my OS and running the game off a completely clean install
I don't know what happened. I don't know what more I can do to diagnose the game. Guess I just don't get to play the game anymore unless a fix gets discovered and pushed. Sigh.
